TY - BOOK ID - 2881049 TI - Structures of Focus and Grammatical Relations AU - Barðdal, Jóhanna AU - Barödal, Johanna AU - Heltoft, Lars AU - Hetland, Jorunn AU - Järventausta, Marja AU - Landén, Barbro AU - Molnár, Valéria PY - 2013 VL - 477 SN - 3484304774 3111881261 3110949482 9783110949483 9783484304772 PB - Berlin Boston DB - UniCat KW - Focus (Linguistics) KW - Grammar, Comparative and general. KW - Comparative grammar KW - Grammar KW - Grammar, Philosophical KW - Grammar, Universal KW - Language and languages KW - Philosophical grammar KW - Grammar, Comparative KW - Linguistics KW - Philology KW - Discourse analysis KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Topic and comment UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2881049 AB - The seven articles of this volume take up crucial aspects of information structure and grammatical form. Special attention is paid to the definition of topic, focus and contrast, to the language specific devices for expressing different types of these information structural notions, and to the typological characterisation of languages as to discourse configurationality. The investigation of grammatical relations includes the interplay between syntactic functions, morphological case and thematic structure, and the study of the functional and formal complexity of passive in Germanic languages. ER -